Associate Professor, Statistician, Co-founder Farm To Fork, GuelphHacks, and the Improve Life Challenge, Co-creator of the ICON Transdisciplinary Classroom and the Gryphons Care Initiative, former Director of PSEER.

Undergraduate Research Conference

If you are an undergraduate student researching in the arts & humanities, business, engineering, music, health sciences, social sciences, or physical sciences, you may be interested in the Western Student Research Conference.

The Western Student Research Conference has opened a call for abstracts for undergraduate research presentations. The annual conference showcases undergraduate research from a variety of disciplines and provides students with an opportunity to practice their presentation and communication skills.

Many of my undergraduate students have taken part in conferences in the past, and despite some nerves and maybe even fears about presenting in a public space, have all enjoyed the opportunity. It’s a great way to build your CV, looks great on an award or scholarship application, and gives you an opportunity to learn about and be inspired by other research. And it doesn’t hurt to grow your network – even if you don’t plan on staying in academia.

With that in mind, I’ve already passed the information on to the undergraduate students in my lab, and am encouraging them to submit an abstract. If you’re an undergraduate student working in a research lab, with a faculty member, postdoctoral fellow, or a graduate student, I encourage you to consider submitting as well.

The conference takes place on Friday, March 29th, 2019 at Western University. You can submit your abstracts here. Abstracts are due by January 18th, 2019 (at 11:59pm).

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Acknowledgement

Some of the research and work presented here takes place in the ancestral and continued homelands of the original peoples of Labrador: the Inuit of Nunatsiavut, the Inuit of NunatuKavut, the Innu of Nitassinan, and their ancestors. Some of our work also takes place on the ancestral lands of the Katzie, and Lummi people. Finally, we acknowledge that the University of Guelph resides in the ancestral and treaty lands of the Attawandaron people and the Mississaugas of the Credit, and we recognize and honour our Anishinaabe, Haudenosaunee, and Métis neighbours.